Editing the Drosophila genome is incredibly useful for gene functional analysis. However, compared to gene knockouts, precise gene editing is difficult to achieve. Prime editing, a recently described CRISPR/Cas9-based technique, has the potential to make precise editing simpler and faster, and produce less errors than traditional methods. Initially described in mammalian cells, prime editing is functional in Drosophila somatic and germ cells. Here, we outline steps to design, generate, and express prime editing components in transgenic flies. Furthermore, we highlight a crossing scheme to produce edited fly stocks in less than 3 months.
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Bosch, J. A., & Perrimon, N. (2022). Prime Editing for Precise Genome Engineering in Drosophila. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2540, pp. 113–134). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2541-5_5
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